dave ross and tucker barnes are at the mall. dave has a few special guests, including two-time all-star gio gonzalez and the presidents are there, too. i'm tony perkins. >> and i'm allison seymour. a lot to get to this morning. first, the heat. >> let's go to tucker barnes at national park. it is bright, hot. heat advisory goes into effect at 12 noon. 81 in annapolis. can you see 80s breaking across the area. sat rad, i mentioned a few sprinkles early. storms, just like the last couple of days could be strong later this afternoon and during the early evening hours. here is what we are hoping, to

get the thunderstorms here in time for the fireworks celebration tonight. let's go to the july 4th forecast. it will be warm and humid with temperature in the eighties at about 9:00 tonight. lots and lots of water today. the heat advisory continues. it will not be the 4th of july if you were not joined by the presidents. >> i have the very special privilege here to have a couple of presidents here around me. not all of them but a couple of them. why are you here? they want to encourage everybody to vote for our favorite, hometown favorite bryce harper. go to nationals.com. they kept the voting booth hope until tomorrow afternoon at4:00. you can vote as many times as you want. the presidents want it. we want it. we're going to make that happen, right, guys? >> yes. >> we have more special guests, including gio gonzalez coming up with dave in a couple of minutes. new this morning, one

person is dead afteflames tore through an apartment. it happened in the 1600 block of 17th street. still no word on the victim's identity for what caused this fire. to maryland, a person is dead in that state after being hit by a car on the b w parkway. one other person was transported to the hospital. this happened around 4:00 and forced the complete closure of the highway. the person that was hit had gotten out of the car to switch seats with a passenger. no word on the passenger's condition nor the identity of the victim or if anyone will face charges. so far, there is no word this morning on what cause add metro train to break down outside the college park station. several passengers were caught on camera walking along the tracks. we are told one passenger hit the emergency button, got out and others followed suit. the train was eventually pushed into the station.

metro wants to remind you to never walk on the tracks. the loundoun county board of supervisors is jumping on board and will help pay for the extension of the silver line. board chairman scott york says that the rail extension will help relief congestion and spur economic development in the county. when completed. the silver line will span 23 miles between east false church and ashburn and will cost about $6 billion. we continue to stay on top of breaking news in upper marlboro, maryland. four people, including two kids, were sickened by carbon monoxide this morning. this happen at a hem on van brady road. the children's dad told authorities he had trouble waking them up. the children were flown to shock trauma in baltimore where they have a hyperbearic

chamber. officials are looking into whether a generate being used in the home caused that co poisoning. cleanup and effort to restore electricity continue across our region after the latest powerful storms. pepco is reporting more than 51,000 customers without power. more than 34,000 virginia dough minnian customers and bge reporting more than 34,000 there as well in montgomery, prince george's county and arundel and howard counties. the impact of friday's powerful storms is renewing debate whether to bury power lines. but that is costly, $15 million a mile and that cost will be passed along to customers.

several 4th of july celebrations have been canceled. kensington, germantown, rockville and gaithersburg have scrapped their july 4th celebrations. thousands will head to the mall now for the july 4th celebration. >> for more on how to do that is sarah simmons. >> reporter: would not be the 4th of july without the celebration here on the national mall. folks are happy to know that is still going on. if you take a look here, you can see that security is already down here quite in full force, too. police have already put up tents, they have gated areas. a lot of police are already down here just trying to get in place for this so people are going to be mindful of that. before tonight's fireworks that are set for 9:00 ten, there is going to be a parade down constitution avenue. the fire work show at 9:10.

and the capitol 4th start at 8:00 p.m. take a look at some video from last night. a there is a dress rehearsal on the west lawn. the rehearsal was cut short because of more bad weather. tonight's big celebration again still on. officials are urging people to take metro for this, but if you are driving, keep in mind there are a lot of road closures and restrictions. if you cannot make it down to the national mall for the big fireworks show, there are several other local places to celebrate the holiday. going to be plenty of fireworks in northern virginia. here are some of the places that will be going on. vienna, fairfax, arlington, manassas, fredericksburg. head to mount vernon nor a daytime smoke fireworks show. that's at 12:45 this afternoon.

a little bit earlier in the day. we have not heard of any fireworks displayed canceled because of the storm. so that's good news. maryland, fireworks will go off as planned. annapolis, university of maryland, greenbelt, takoma park and poolesville. there have been some cancellations as you guys mentioned due to power problems there. as the national park service says as they do each year, pack light. sun screen. it's already hot. as you can see, i'm starting to melt under the sun right now, even at this early 9:00 hour, tony and allison. it is going to be a nice one. >> you have a nice glow about you >> reporter: that's where we are going with this, okay, thank you. speaking of the 4th of july, president obama is celebrating the nation's 236th 4th of july at the white house

today. the president is due to speak at a citizenship ceremony for active duty military service. the big highlight at the white house is melia's birthday. she is turns 13 today mitt romney is marching in a july 4th parade in new hampshire. he is on vacation at the romney family estate with all 30 members of his family. that includes 18 grand children. republican presidential candidate will take a breast from his vacation to participate in the parade in the small town of wolfeboro. making headlines this morning, tony, another attack on americans reported in afghanistan. a man wearing an afghan army uniform opened fire on nato troops in the eastern part of that country, fire of them wounded. reportedly they were u.s.

personnel. pakistan reopened supply lines to nato after secretary of state hillary clinton said, sorry, we apologize for killing 24 pakistan soldiers last year. but the white house is denying any apology. thousands of trucks with military supplies have been sit on the border between afghanistan and pakistan. heavy fighting is reported near the syrian capital this morning. at least 17 have apparently been killed in fighting in suburbs of damascus. this week's violence has been particularly bloody with hundreds killed in the last few days. human rights watchers are accusing syria of several crimes against humanity and is calling for international action still ahead, a very high ranking member of the military throwing out the first pitch at

the nats game. tucker will be talking with admiral james winniefeld. >> first, dave ross has a special guest. >> very special guest. two-time all-star gio gonzalez will be here with me. they are get can ready for an 11:05 pitch. the gates are open, have been open. come on down and say hi to me. stick around. gio gonzalez will be around. q every day, an average of 5,000 people

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i don't know how she does that she has been officially weighed in for thenathan's hot dogs eating contest. they will defend their challenges. >> i never knew his nickname was jaws. >> i thought i was joey chess nut. how many burgers can you eat? a 24-year-old is the new champion. he devoured 15 burgers in 10 minutes. he won $1000 plus a gift card from the chain. this is actually his fourth win. congratulations. >> yeah. >> sure. >> it's an art. >> the nationals continue their winning ways beating the giants 9-3. they did it first and first motorcycle with solid pitching. stephen vast burg and ian

desmond are live. good morning. we have of the the lefty gun slinger. >> i wish i were the lefty gun slinger i'm just a right hander with limited talent. gio gonzalez going to the second consecutive all-star game. >> good morning. how are you doing? 9:00 a.m. feels good. feels good, you know, just represent washington and, you know, to be out there for the second time. honestly, there are a couple of guys that deserve it more than i do. i wish they could come with us and enjoy it. strasburg has been incredible and desmond. >> they are going with you. >> oh, i know, not them. but you know, you have a room full. i want too represent them so well and let them know that

they deserve to be there. >> every day, when somebody takes the mound, he had win jackson takes it, you have to feel that anybody can win on any given day. do you feel that you have the staying power to do that? >> yes. if i was a washington nationals fan, i would be here every day. bryce doing well. and jordan zimmermann. desmond had a home run. it does not stop. there were 412,000 people here. >> and it's going to be rocking again today. it's like, where else can you be right now? >> this is the place to be, center of d.c. baseball. >> you talked about bryce harper. people are voting. i voted. have you voteed. >> are you kidding me? i'm going in there. i have to vote for my boy? >> what do you think about bryce, being 19, this close to

his first all-star game? what has he meant to this clubhouse? >> he has been unbelievable. he said it best. that's a clown question, bro. >> we know what he means. he brings so much excitement and energy. >> can you outrun him? >> absolutely not >> no way. not even with a strap behind him. you can imagine, this guy is unbelievably fast, powerful. five-tool player. >> you are big on twitter? you are getting them to vote? yeah. out there, if you are on twitter, fanatic, go out there and vote for my boy bryce. >> what's the chicken mode? what have you got. >> the fans behind the dugout, represent chicken mode. i always do a shoutout. >> you are representing? diswhrt chicken mode. >> michael morse -- >> no. >> it's similar to it, but the beast mode is a little bit stronger. >> you have the gunshot like i said. >> you have to be a little

stronger in the beast mode. chicken mode is more my area of expertise. >> right. >> thinks like chicken noodle soup mode. >> you are very nice and i know you do care about your teammates, but you individually, i think you have been everything that nats fans you would be and more. what does it mean to be here an all-star with the nats and not oakland. >> it's great. you know, they took me right off the bat, took a chance on me. i want to represent this organization so proudly. i don't want to stop. i want to see how far we can do. >> you have an 11:05 start. what do you do? >> i think the guyest room that we have, real dark, put on relaxing massage song. >> for three hours? >> yes. >> and i'm getting knocked out.

can i come out and stretch? >> yeah, there ace time you have to come out here. >> you are unbelievable. >> the chicken mode himself, gio gonzalez. thanks for joining us. get some sleep. >> i guess i can wear the chicken mode, too because i have chicken arms. but gio is bigger than he lets on. >> chicken mode is going to be sold out. >> advertising there. >> he has great personality. >> he is a great addition to this squad and to that clubhouse. everybody likes gio gonzalez. >> thank you, dave. coming up, a district man. he is off the job for a few weeks because of his objection to new uniforms. we'll up date you on that story and residents are furious when a firetruck stops to fill up a backyard pool just minutes after that destructive storm. even our first president

knows that nothing beats cold ice cream on a hot day which is why we are learning how to make it this morning. 18th century style and it's just one of the many activities that they have going on out at mount vernon where we are live this morning. they are celebrating our country's birthday in a big way. we'll tell you all about it live on fox morning news. stay with us. ay with us. 

>> a decorated d.c. fire lieutenant who spoke out against the fire chief's policy has been demoted to sargeant and suspended without pay for 6 1/2 next. lieutenant alvorado contacted fox 5 to complain about a new requirement that firefighters only wear new clothing with the new d.c. elselogo. he calls it an expensive

change. the fire chief said that firefighters are given $5000 worth of clothing for allowance. but fire alvorado says that the allowance is spent on buying gear to get into a burning building, not just this clothing. another reason is that alvorado rushed to help a patient and didn't ask us to turn off the camera. >> they asked me to stop concentrating on a patient and violating the first amendment and stopping you. it's retaliatory and punitive and very vindictive. >> alvorado does have the right to appeal. the fire chief it says he won't comment until he sees that appeal. meantime, the d.c. firers union wants to know who ordered

an engine company to fill a private pool over the weekend. sources and witnesses say that less than 24 hours after a storm rolled true city leaving hundreds of thousands without power, someone at the highest level of the department ordered engine 13 to fill autopsy pool in northeast. the president of the firefighters union estimates that the engine was outs of service for at least a half hour filling the pool and heading to a hydrant for a refill of its own. >> it's high pressure unusual on a normal day, much less in a state of emergency, on the saturday, a day after the storm. >> fire chief ellerbie would not comment on that saying that the real story is the fact that fire and ems responded to more than 50,000 calls.

and coming up, some veterans are joining the first family, but, first, we go to tucker barnes. >> we'll be joined by adderall winnefeld who tells us about his passion for the nationals. [ female announcer ] safeway presents

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means homeland or fatherland. that's to wow your friends. >> around the water coperatures above the 100-degree mark. let's go to tucker barnes. >> we are joined by a very, very special guest, vice chairman. >> as military officers, i try to follow qualities organizations and what a quality organization we have here in the nationals. >> off to a great start. we might have a playoff team for a change. let's keep our fingers crossed. great day for the nationals but for our country, i want to know what does it mean to you as a member of the military?

>> it's a great reminder for our roots. i had a great chance to visits montero last week. and it's great honor to be here watching the national pastime. >> how does an admiral celebrate the fowl? >> will you attend the game? >> of course, i'm going to attend the game. i'm going to celebrate with the nationals here, hopefully a victory and go home and watch the fireworks tonight. >> you mentioned to me the great support the nationals have for our u.s. military. care to share with us about how they support you? >> whole nationals organization starting at the top has opinion incredibly supportive of the mill from time to time during every home game, they salute the military in the 3rd inning, bring 100 military kids every sunday for a special presentation, when there is a sunday home game and more uponly, they support our wounded warriors. the team visited walter reed. we had the opportunity to bring some of our woundedwarriors

here. they have a great softball game. >> we talked to them earlier. i had a chance to play them last year. they beat us 18-1. >> there you go. very good. >> you have a very special honor today. you're going to throw the first ball. >> great. >> have you done that before? >> i have never done it at this level. i have done it at the minor league left. >> you want to stretch a little bit, warm up the arm because my pitch was high and outside. i was told it was not a strike: you know, just to put a little pressure on you. >> what i'm hoping for is a lot of strikes for the nationals pitchers. >> i'm sure they will do well tell me about your love for the nationals. >> i used to be a senators fan a long time ago and now a nationals fan. you have a very committed and patient ownership group which built this organization from the ground up. and then you bring a guy like davey johnson. i can tell from you my military

experience that an organization really responds to a skipper who they think is going to lead them to victory. so you have that and look at the wonderful combination of older players and younger players. >> a great pitching staff and they are ready to go. >> there you go. >> with a little bit of luck, the playoffs? >> i'm counting on it. i think they'll have a great second half and i can't wait to watch. >> thank you for joining us. >> honored. before we toss it to you guys, we're going to dot weather. >> we are counting on to you have good weather. sowns like we will have sunshine and warm. we'll get the thundershowers over with by the time the game is -- we'll get the game over with by the time the thundershowers start. >> and we have a heat advisory here. >> that's the latest from nats park. we'll join us before the end of

the show here. remember, the game start at 11:00. thanks, admiral, for joining us. >> tucker, a real pleasure. and thank you, america, for supporting our nil tri. and thank you to him for serving. he did a great weather forecast there. hollywood says good-bye to the tv sheriff from may berry. a look at the live and career. and tom cruise is raking in the money. but katy likely won't see any of it. details on the couple's pre- nup, next. 

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washington, george washington's home where holly is learning to make the delicious dessert. and in the district, a huge celebration, of course. lots of stars converging on the nation's capital including kool and the gang. we'll sit down with robert kool bell coming up.  max! ( dog barking ) this is the plan that revolves around you. introducing share everything. unlimited talk. unlimited text. and a single pool of shareable data that powers up to 10 devices. the first plan of its kind. share everything. only from verizon.

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back now with what is being called one of the largest cherry pies out there. >> i would like to see the other one. >> yes, what could be bigger than that? >> this was made in the town of -- get, this george washington.

>> georgians watch to do that their pie will weigh a half ton and serve more than 100 people. >> you know that's going to be messy >> i never had a slice of cherry pie in my 46 years. >> why not. >> you don't like cherries? >> i love cherry that's fantastic. >> that's very strange. i'm trying to break a personal record of not having it as long as i live. >> we have a visit to the historic home of george washing tonight it is turning into a class in culinary history this morning. >> holly morris joins usually from historic mount vernon. never had a piece of cherry pie? >> are you sure? are you sure american? they have a naturalization. >> i thought it was apple pie. >> apple pie, cherry pie. >> maybe today i'll do it for george washington. >> you know what goes great with pie? ice cream. they are making ice cream here

today. that's one new events they are having here as part of their 4th of july celebration at mount vernon. they are having a naturalization ceremony, military music and reenactments and all the daytime fireworks that they usually have but this is new and that's why we are doing it this morning. this is a process. you cannot just run out to dairy queen back in the 18th century and get a soft scoop serve. >> gail is the manager of reenactment. people will be surprised here. >> very much so. what you put together earlier is now cooked and whisked and ready to go into the ice cream freezer >> from start to finish, how long would it take to make ice cream? >> a couple of hours at least. >> maybe it makes the treat all that sweeter. >> of course, and you didn't get it that often.

recall certainly. from here -- >> carefully. >> i won't do it. this is called cream machine for ice. that's what he called it. it's in a bucket with ice and salt, now you put it in there and now you have to turn it back and forth and the ice it is important because that he the process to help make this work. >> as good as ice cream is it was a side effect because the important invention here is the reaction of salt and ice. we think this may have gone all the way back into the 7th century. came to europe in the 14th century and into our country, the first part of the 18th century. >> how long did they do this? >> about 30 minutes. if you have a large one like we

have in our kitchen, an hour or longer. >> it's goods for your wrist? yeah, i'm building muscles here. >> now the hard part, take the top off and you have to scrape down the sides and the bottom. >> to make sure that you getting it all there in >> try that a little bit i'm scraping, i'm scraping. >> it it guessing a little thicker. >> it is a little bit. it thickens quickly. >> and then through the magic of television we have our finished product. this took about 30 minutes. it is soft serve vice cream and delicious. >> this is good stuff. >> can we taste snit. >> yes, we can . >> here we have a spoon and take some out so we can see what it looks like.

>> this is about the same amount of cries team cream. and what they like to do is put it in the pyramid. >> ice cream on the table, i'm sorry, it's not chocolate. it is strawberry. i know that george washington ate strawberry. they would have put it in the little cups. that's how mrs. washington would have served it at her levees when she was first lady. >> and did you know-glsh i'm sorry. i'm thinking one more fact. i'm almost done. >> we're going to make oyster ice cream next.

>> really? i can save the oyster ice cream for my crew to taste. they're going to love that i'll have more chocolate. help yourself. >> here is the fun thing. they are doing these demonstrations from 10:00 to noon but they have a recipe so you can go home and make your 18th century ice cream. and you don't need this contraption to do that, you can make it in a zip lock bag. happy birthday, america, from our first president's home, a la mode. that will be really good on cherry pie. >> yes, today is the day that i try. >> it's been a pleasure your reports have been, holly a whole lot of big names will be here in towrntion including kool and the gang. joining us, robert kool bell. good morning. >> good morning, how from you. >> i'm doing well, thank you. how did the rehearsals go last

night? >> wonderful. a little rain but we were able to get through what we were doing. >> a little rain don't stop kool and the gang. >> no, no. >> not after all these years. you have to celebrate. >> that's right. we were talking about it before. that song tonight f you do it tonight, that's going to be so huge for the national mall. >> we are definite hi going to do it. 4th of july, and we are back home. >> talk about that. you checked out your schedule and you all are on the road i mean almost every day. not just here. >> right >> reporter: a couple of days states side and then you are back overseas again like three days from now. how do you do it? >> we keep the energy up. we did 48 shows with van halen and then we went to lebanon and then from there, england and then we came back here, rehearsed and getting ready for

tonight. >> reporter: we talked about it often, but music might be that one thing that transcends language, politics, what have you. that's the great equalizer. >> we have been doing it for 45 years. music is the message and music definitely brings people together around the world because we travel all over the world >> reporter: what strikes me as unique about kool and the gang is that core group has been there frominception through toi. is that a pretty rare thing with the band that you have come up with? >> yes. the four original members, we are the four standing -- we started in 1964 and we are still together. it's been great. >> and is that the jazziaks? is that how you say at that?

>> yes. >> you hear the jazz in there, the funk and r and b and pop in later years. how did that trans form may go come may go -- transformation come about that? >> you know, we listened to things. we had the great james brown on influenza and then 70s was more funky. >> and then more pop stuff in the 80s. >> do you sit back and say, my group is pretty amaze glg all the time. >> reporter: who came up with the nickname kool? because i wanted to ask you this for many, many yearsable country boy coming from youngstown, ohio, moving to jersey city, everyone has a nickname. i tried to fit n i thought it

was cool to be cool, not knowing it would be destiny in terps of the group being the name. >> and even the spelling was great. cool with a k. you know, i had a guy with a c so i tried to fit in. >> let's go back to that van halen tour. you were talking to tony. i thought that's interesting, van halen and kool and the the gang. how was that? >> 48 cities. >> reporter: how did it go? >> started with david lee roth. we played the music festival last year, about 60,000 in front of our stage. people on that week like bono and paul simon, a lot of rock groups. when david lee roth said, that's who i want. what? kool and the gang. >> they bring the party, they

were the party group of the 80s and we are the party rock group. they wrote the long, ladies night. >> i love it. >> reporter: there was have somebody else. somebody would have gotten something else, their favorite group out of that concert. you know how time goes. maybe you need to chill out a little bit because you have a big show. you were there on the road and you were there last night. >> we're going to party >> you're going to party? >> yeah. >> i'm going to do my part and let you go right now but it's been a great hon more having you. >> i don't think you need an introduction. have a great show tonight. q every day, an average of 5,000 people

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my little helpers... and 100% natural french's yellow mustard. it has zero calories for me, and a taste my family loves. tucker and dave ross [ laughter ]. >> tucker and dave ross are celebrating our nation's birthday at nats park. >> let's head back out to them

for a final check of the weather and preview of today's game which will be a win for the nationals. i think so. >> what was so funny when they tossed to us? what did we do? >> it wasn't you. >> oh, i got it. >> >> we are hoping to get a w today. he had win jackson will be on the mound at 11:05, just about an hour from now. they do more maintenance to this yard >> it's' been four hours of interfans. >> they have been here at 6:00 to get this thing in tip top shape. >> going to be a bowie actual day, hot day and humid day. if you are coming down to the park to the mall to sell breath the 4th of july, don't forget the sun screen, water. >> we know the drill. >> and they have detours and road blocks. >> let me show you the five-day forecast very quickly and we'll sign off from there. heat wave tips. 100 to 105. look out for possibility of

thunderstorms between 2:00 and 8:00. can't guarantee but at least a possibility. >> be honest. are you going to go with the air conditioning booth or with the fans it . >> i'm going to be sit here with the fans. >> tie on or off? >> tie off. >> at 11:00, the tie comes off. >> i had a great time, dave. honored to meet the admiral. i got to meet several players. >> gio gonzalez and chicken mode. are you going to have one of those? >> he mass bigger arms than i do. >> enjoy the game. we leave you today with one more fun fact on this 4th of july when the nation declared its independence back in 1776, it did so without an official flag to our new nation. that came the next year. the continental congress adopted the national flag and june 14th, 1777 as